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| Does the expansion bus have its own crystal? |
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| Yes, because the expansion bus needs to run at a different speed than the fsb. |
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| Hexadecimal is a 16 digit numbering system. It uses characters 0-9 and A-F. |
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| AGP stands for what and is an expansion of what bus? |
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| Accelerated Graphics Port, PCI |
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| A red "X" is next to a device in Device Manager, what does this mean? |
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| A red "X" means a bad connection, a bad driver, or even a bad card. |
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| How does a CPU communicate with a device? |
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| The CPU uses the device's I/O address. |
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| How does a device get the CPU's attention and start talking? |
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| A device uses its IRQ to start talking to the CPU |
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| What is PCI and what does it stand for? |
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| PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect, it is a computer bus for attaching devices in a PC |
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| What is PCIe and what does it stand for? |
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| PCIe stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, It's the newer type of PCI |
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| What is PCI-X and what does it stand for? |
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| Mini PCI is for laptops, it's smaller PCI |
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| What type of PCI uses serial rather than paralle communication? |
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| PCI Express uses serial communication. |
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